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Halloween planner

Watching others dress up is a hallmark of October 31; some choose to pursue this activity in a theater, and several operas are appearing on Saturday night to oblige them. Apart from the Washington National Opera's "Ariadne auf Naxos," two short operas come courtesy of the InCite Festival, a Boston University affair that has come to Washington for the next few days and is taking over the Olney Theater Center in Sandy Spring on Saturday night to present the André Previn-Tom Stoppard one-acter "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" and Michael Nyman's opera based on Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." At the same time, the InSeries is opening "Zarzuela on the Avenue," two short zarzuelas united in an updated production.